On the intimations of our immortality
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Book Subtitle: Seneca's timeless letters of advice and wisdom.
Book Description: The final volume of Seneca's moral letters. Common Stoic themes emerge again and again: the unreliability of fortune, the ability to form Stoic resolve, and the importance of virtue.
24.
We cannot yet, except at rare intervals, endure the light of heaven; therefore, look forward without fearing to that appointed hour,—the last hour of the body but not of the soul.
Survey everything that lies about you, as if it were luggage in a guest-chamber: you must travel on.
Nature strips you as bare at your departure as at your entrance.
Book: Moral Letters Vol III
Subtitle: Seneca's timeless letters of advice and wisdom.
Author: Seneca
Chapter: On the intimations of our immortality
Location: Chapter 102, Section 24
Content:
24.
We cannot yet, except at rare intervals, endure the light of heaven; therefore, look forward without fearing to that appointed hour,—the last hour of the body but not of the soul.
Survey everything that lies about you, as if it were luggage in a guest-chamber: you must travel on.
Nature strips you as bare at your departure as at your entrance.